Well, if she doesn't like the beatings and house arrest, she should quit being such an ungrateful little biatch, then. Spare the rod, spoil the child. I mean, didn't her father make her a billionaire in a country that isn't in the upper half of the average personal income stats?

Well, Uzbekistan is not so bad. Couple of boilings, what's that between friends. They make jolly good little cars they export to Russia.

You should have seen Turkmenistan. It's glorious leader, Turkmenbashi, have written a holy book which is required, by law, to be held in every mosque as an equal book to Quran.

A lot of post-Soviet states are such unbelievably terrifying shiatholes, that Russia by comparison seems an enlightened stronghold of freedom and democracy. Mark my words, one day those shiatholes would explode (again), and it would be wise not to stay nearby...

bikerbob59:FTFA "Uzbekistan has one of the world's worst human rights records. In 2002 two prisoners were boiled alive."

Holy crap...

Yep. they keep basically a human-sized Fry-o-lator in their prisons for just such a purpose. A blog post I wrote way back then criticizing Bush's decision to make nice with the Uzbeki leader (we needed airfields there to operate in Afghanistan) has a link t an amnesty international document with pictures if you are truly curious, but my advice is, don;t ask me for the link...it's....horrific is a word that used a lot these days but in this case it really is the ocrrect term

Magorn:bikerbob59: FTFA "Uzbekistan has one of the world's worst human rights records. In 2002 two prisoners were boiled alive."

Holy crap...

Yep. they keep basically a human-sized Fry-o-lator in their prisons for just such a purpose. A blog post I wrote way back then criticizing Bush's decision to make nice with the Uzbeki leader (we needed airfields there to operate in Afghanistan) has a link t an amnesty international document with pictures if you are truly curious, but my advice is, don;t ask me for the link...it's....horrific is a word that used a lot these days but in this case it really is the ocrrect term

Well, once again I have not learned to put my morbid curiosity aside...and thanks to Fark, I have learned yet another thing that I previously did not know or even think about.

Just think, if Japan and Europe hadn't shut down all/most of their nuclear reactors, this is where the US would have to get some nuclear materials from when Canada and Australia's reserves run out in 60 or so years. Fortunately with the shutdowns and improved reprocessing technology, we won't need to go there for 200 years or more now.Unless we go all nuclear fuel, then we'll be needing their resources in a mere 25 years.Won't it be nice to return to the 'stans, not for oil, but for Uranium?

Of course, we could go for surface based energy resources, and leave these places as they seem to choose to be, and with the added benefit of not needing to put boots on the ground for energy reasons.